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boss

/baws, bos/US // bɔs, bɒs //UK // (bɒs) informal //

老板,老板娘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who employs or superintends workers; manager.
    • : a politician who controls the party organization, as in a particular district.
    • : a person who makes decisions, exercises authority, dominates, etc.: My grandfather was the boss in his family.
    • : a powerful nonplayer character, often appearing at the end of a level or at the end of the game, who must be defeated in order for a player to move on to a new level or to win the game: Is there a trick to beating the final boss?Your objective for this boss-level event is to survive several waves of zombie attacks.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be master of or over; manage; direct. control.
    • : to order about, especially in an arrogant manner.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be boss.
    • : to be too domineering and authoritative.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : chief; master.
    • : Slang. first-rate.

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Examples

  • Two months later, Murphy took over the intelligence office after his boss retired and proceeded to have multiple meetings with Cuccinelli on the HTA.

  • You might fool me about how well you do your job, you might fool your boss about how well you do your job, but you will never fool you.

  • Shivani Siroya, 38, CEO & founder at TalaThe best career advice I ever received came from my boss, Eva Weissman, when I was working at the United Nations Population Fund.

  • Manu Kumar Jain, 39, global vice president, Xiaomi, and managing director, Xiaomi IndiaThe best advice I ever received was from my first boss at McKinsey & Company, Ireena Vittal, who also recruited me into the firm.

  • Already short-staffed in light of cost cuts, agency bosses will need to weigh up their chances of winning new business with the impact it will have on work for current clients.

  • Based on the hat he had created for himself, Stetson made a version called “The Boss of the Plains.”

  • NBC News boss Deborah Turness abruptly ousted the ‘Meet the Press’ host four months ago.

  • Like his boss al-Baghdadi, he was captured by U.S. forces and served time in Camp Bucca.

  • I later told my boss about what had happened, but she told me that I probably misunderstood the situation.

  • His sensitivity to this problem came out in his first sharp disagreement with his boss, VMI superintendent Francis H. Smith.

  • Delancy knew that the message was from that man he had never seen—the big boss, the man who knew all the answers.

  • Each man knows his part and your near neighbor, John Smith, is boss of the whole.

  • Money and political power, boss of this State—that's what I'm after—and no idle dream either.

  • Policemen send their daughters to Europe, and the boss politicians get rich so fast they spend money almost like a gentleman.

  • Something came up today and the boss had to leave in a hurry—right in the middle of a conference.